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In response to your question about what it would take to get other business to move to BrickBay, I don't really think that will happen. Before I explain, let me point out that the concept of BrickBay is wonderful. In fact, Bricksonthebrain.com's (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) ?? To paraphrase any number of sources... "Brickbay is only a venue." Why can't a business use it just as easily as an individual? This is honest curiosity - I just don't get why you think it wouldn't work for a business. None of the points (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) I have to comment on the above paragraph: Brickbay by itself is registered as a business and it provides a service to either individuals or businesses to sell their Lego. That is the whole idea behind it. How each shop (whether it is a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) it to be very frustrating because of all the tags needed for it... would it perhaps be possible to use a .csv spreadsheet file instead (that way it stays OS independant, I'm using Linux :-) with lugnet partref, amount, color, price for (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Why do you say it is OS-dependent? Whatever OS you are running, you still need to generate the same text. If you do so by writing a simple Perl script that massages your csv file into the correct format, what difference does it make whether (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Since so far some "advanced" features are for Windows users only (Excel sales list for instance) I mentioned it, since all these neat things simply don't work for me. I also had some problems browsing the site, although most of those are gone (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Try star office on Linux. It seems to handle Excel and Word docs for me on Solaris, so it probably does on Linux too. (...) This particular transformation looks trivial. I bet you could learn enough Perl to do it in less than an hour. (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Yes. Me. I just haven't had time to fiddle much yet. ++Lar (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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